 | 1805 - 948 pagina’s
...me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and hoth mothers and daughters used to he pleased with the observations they put me upon making....high opinion of my taciturnity, revealed to me their l6ve-secrets, in order to induce me to give them copies to write after, or correct, for answers to... | |
 | 1805 - 498 pagina’s
...liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them, their mothers sometimes with them ; arid both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with...observations they put me upon making. " I was not more thnn thirteen, when three of these young women, unknown to each other, having a high opinion of my... | |
 | 1805 - 984 pagina’s
...needles, used, when they ^bookthey liked, and thought I should, OW ше to read to tlxeru ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters...pleased with the observations they put me upon making. After serving a diligent apprentice, ship to "a. master who grudged him every hour that tended not... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 754 pagina’s
...used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to mid to them: their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters...my taciturnity, revealed to me their love-secrets, iii order to induce me to give them copies to write after, or correct, for answers to their lovers'... | |
 | 1868 - 506 pagina’s
...used, when they got a book they liked and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them, their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters...I was not more than thirteen, when three of these youug women, unknown to each other, having a high opinion of my taciturnity, revealed to me their love... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 pagina’s
...when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them; their mothers sometimes with them, and both mothers and daughters...the observations they put me upon making. I was not 1 Life of Richardson, vol. i. pp. 36, 87. more than thirteen, when three of these young women, unknown... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pagina’s
...when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters...high opinion of my taciturnity, revealed to me their love secrets, in order to induce me to give them copies to write after, or correct, for answers to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pagina’s
...when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters...high opinion of my taciturnity, revealed to me their love secrets, in order to induce me to give them copies to write after, or correct, for answers to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pagina’s
...when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters...high opinion of my taciturnity, revealed to me their love secrets, in order to induce me to give them copies to write after, or correct, for answers to... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pagina’s
...when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them, their mothers sometimes with them; and both mothers and daughters...these young; women, unknown to each other, having a high opinion of ray taciturnity, revealed to me their love secrets, in order to induce me to give... | |
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As a bashful and not forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow... 
